Which museum now houses Rivera's fresco featuring La Catrina?
Answer
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What social-science term describes the film-inspired Mexico City parade?
Answer
pizza effect
Which village stages the lighted Mesoamerican ball game at Las Yácatas?
Answer
Tzintzuntzan
Which 1950 Octavio Paz essay includes the chapter 'All Saints, Day of the Dead'?
Answer
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Which Aztec festival closest to Day of the Dead honored Mixcóatl?
Answer
Quecholli
What was La Catrina originally called in Posada's image?
Answer
La Calavera Garbancera
Who was identified as the perpetrator of the 1980 Oktoberfest bombing?
Answer
Gundolf Köhler
Which Bavarian novelist organized the second Oktoberfest costume parade in 1895?
Answer
Maximilian Schmidt
Which Oktoberfest tent has a 1,000-place standing area?
Answer
Hofbräu-Festzelt
Which museum curates the museum tent at the Oide Wiesn?
Answer
Munich Stadtmuseum
Who proposed the horse race idea behind the first Oktoberfest?
Answer
Andreas Michael Dall'Armi
Which Oktoberfest tent hosts the annual German 30-meter crossbow championship?
Answer
Armbrustschützenzelt
Which French military corps traditionally marches last in the Bastille Day parade?
Answer
French Foreign Legion
Who directed France's 1989 Bastille Day bicentennial parade?
Answer
Jean-Paul Goude
What Paris bridge was built partly with stones from the demolished Bastille?
Answer
Pont de la Concorde
What royal complex did Charles V create south of the Bastille for his own safety?
Answer
Hôtel Saint-Pol
Which U.S. naval figure helped unfurl the Stars and Stripes at the Fête de la Fédération?
Answer
John Paul Jones
Which song became popular among workers during the Wheelbarrow Days?
Answer
Ah! ça ira
What nickname was given to volunteer workdays preparing the Champ de Mars?
Answer
Wheelbarrow Days
Which bishop celebrated mass at the Fête de la Fédération?
Answer
Talleyrand
In Malta, Saint Patrick's Day is mainly celebrated around which bay?
Answer
Spinola Bay
Which group organized Tokyo's first Saint Patrick's Day parade in 1992?
Answer
Irish Network Japan
Which organization founded Seachtain na Gaeilge?
Answer
Conradh na Gaeilge
Which Irish fraternity founded about 1750 adopted green as its colour?
Answer
Friendly Brothers of St Patrick
Who wrote the surviving seventh-century Vita sancti Patricii about Saint Patrick?
Answer
Muirchú moccu Machtheni
What vicus did Saint Patrick say his family came from?
Answer
Bannavem Taburniae
At Dominican Carnival, what horned masked character carries an inflated bladder whip?
Answer
Diablo Cojuelo
Who won the first Calypso King contest in 1939?
Answer
Growling Tiger
Which three Cologne Carnival figures make up the Dreigestirn?
Answer
Maiden, Prince and Peasant
Which Pennsylvania town is home to the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge ceremony?
Answer
Quarryville
What are young groundhogs sometimes called?
Answer
chucklings
What apricot-based drink is popular during Ramadan in the Middle East?
Answer
Qamar al-Din
What Gregorian date is given for the Battle of Badr?
Answer
13 March 624
Which battle fought on 3 September 1260 is dated 25 Ramadan 658 AH?
Answer
Battle of Ain Jalut
Which 1973 Arab-Israeli war is also called the Ramadan War?
Answer
Yom Kippur War
On which mountain is the Cave of Hira located?
Answer
Jabal al-Nour